William Cooper (New York)

William Cooper (2 December 1754-22 December 1809) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-NY 10) from 4 March 1795 to 3 March 1797 (succeeding Silas Talbot and preceding James Cochran) and from 4 March 1799 to 3 March 1801 (succeeding Cochran and preceding Thomas Morris).

Biography
William Cooper was born in Somerton, Pennsylvania in 1754, and he worked as a wheelwright before settling in Burlington Township, New Jersey, where he became a storekeeper. During the late 1780s, he became a wealthy land speculator and frontier developer in Otstego County, New York, and he became a judge in Montgomery County in 1791 before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1795 to 1797 and from 1799 to 1801. He was killed during a fight with a political opponent in Albany in 1809.